14 DAY TRIAL // If you're looking into using a Solaris operating system on your personal computer, OpenIndiana is a free and open-source UNIX operating system derived from OpenSolaris and using the illumos kernel.
The latest release, OpenIndiana Hipster 2017.10 arrived today with numerous changes and up-to-date components, including the latest X.Org Server 1.19.5 display server and corresponding libraries and drivers, ABI compatibility for using Solaris 10u10 binaries, as well as updated cluster suite and text installer.
"Text installer now can perform basic OpenIndiana installation to existing ZFS pool," reads today's announcement. "The option is considered advanced and should be used with care, but allows you to install minimal OI system to existing pool. To use it, press F5 on 'Welcome' screen."
Another interesting aspect of this new OpenIndiana release is that it no longer ships with the older GNOME 2 packages, so users are now urged to switch to the MATE desktop environment. The latest version, MATE 1.18, is provided by default for new installs, though you can also use the Enlightenment 0.21.8 desktop environment.
Here's what's new in OpenIndiana Hipster 2017.10
Among the updated apps and core components included in the OpenIndiana Hipster 2017.10 release, we can mention Mozilla Firefox 52.4.1 ESR, Mozilla Thunderbird 52.4.0, VLC Media Player 2.2.6, GStreamer 1.12.3, Brltty 5.5, WebkitGTK+ 2.16.6, libjpeg 1.5.2, goffice 0.10.35, as well as the Nvidia 340.104 proprietary graphics driver.
GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 7 is available as well, along with ZSH 5.3.1, Midnight Commander 4.8.19, Mutt 1.9.0, GNU Sed 4.4, GNU Awk 4.1.4, Fish 2.6, TMux 2.6, GNU screen 4.6.1, tcpdump 4.9.2, Jenkins 2.73.2 and 2.85, Golang 1.8, OpenJDK 8u131, Tcl/Tk 8.6.6, Mercurial 4.2.3, Git 2.14.2, Valgrind 3.13.0, and ccache 3.3.4.
On the server side of things, OpenIndiana Hipster 2017.10 comes with PostgreSQL 10, MongoDB 3.4.9, MariaDB 10.1, Percona Server 5.7, OpenVPN 2.4.3, ISC Bind 9.10.6, ISC DHCP 4.3.5, Squid 3.5.27, Nginx 1.13.6, Apache 2.4.29, Lighttpd 1.4.46, Postfix 3.1.6, Samba 4.4.16, GeoIP 1.6.11, and Node.js 8.8.1 (0.12.18, 6.11.5, and 7.10.1 are also included).
Anther than that, the Cluster suite was updated as well, and it consists of corosync 2.4.2, pcs 0.9.159, resource-agents 4.0.1, cmrsh 3.0.1, and pacemaker 1.1.17, available only for 64-bit systems. The OpenSSL implementation received GOST support, time-slider got some fixes, and LightDM can now interact with Solaris-specific UI.
OpenIndiana Hipster 2017.10 is available for download right now on our website if you want to install it on your personal computer. Please note that IIIM (Internet/Intranet Input Method Framework) is not included by default on the installation image, but IBus, and the US keyboard layout is enabled by default.